INVITED LECTURES
AND WORKSHOPS
“Structured Input: Focus on Form for High School Language Instruction.” Plano School District. Spring 2007.
“Structured Input: Focus on Form for High School Language Instruction.” Richardson School District. Spring 2007.
“Second Language Grammar Instruction: Myths and Methods.” A Workshop For ESL Instructors-in-Training at Texas Tech University. January, 2006.
“Structured Input: Theory, Research, and Implementation.” Invited Lecture at McGraw-Hill Special Event for Dallas Area Language Instructors and Administrators. Spring, 2005
“Structured Input: Theory, Research, and Implementation.” Invited Lecture at McGraw-Hill Special Event for Fort Worth Area Language Instructors and Administrators. Spring, 2005.
Invited Fall Orientation Speaker at Northern Illinois University.
Topic: Implementation of a Task-Based
Approach to Introductory Spanish. August, 2004.
Invited Lecture at Northern Illinois University. Topic:
Communicative Language Teaching and Assessment: An Approach
for Lower-level Spanish. April, 2004.
Invited Lecture Series at Universidad Nacional Autónoma
de México. Day 1: Processability
Theory; Day 2: Input Processing
and Processing Instruction; Day 3: Concept
Mediation and Word Association in Low-level Bilinguals.
Additional activities: daily workshops and mentoring of SLA
research faculty at UNAM. January, 2004.
Invited Speaker at University of Louisville. Topic:
Task-based Language Instruction- A Model for Spanish.
November, 2003.
Invited Lecture and Workshop at Iowa State University. Topic:
SLA Theory, Research and Practice: An Informed Look at
Curriculum Development for Undergraduate Spanish. August,
2003.
Invited Lecture at the University of Nevada-Reno. Topic:
L2 Acquisition of the Spanish Subjunctive: An Empirical
Perspective. February, 2003.
Invited Lecture at Washington University. Topic:
The Roles of Input and Output Practice in the Foreign
Language Classroom. St. Louis, Missouri. October, 2001.

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